SCHOLAR DIRECTORY

Alicia Gill Rossiter, DNP, FNP, PPCNP‐BC, FAANP, FAAN is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the Veteran to Bachelor of Science in Nursing Major at the University of South Florida College of Nursing. She also serves as the College of Nursing Military Liaison. She graduated with her BSN from The University of Alabama and her Masters and Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of South Florida. She is a board certified pediatric nurse practitioner. Dr. Rossiter served in the United States Army Nurse Corps on active duty for four years which included two deployments—a combat deployment to Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and a humanitarian mission to Honduras, Central America. She branch transferred into the United States Air Force Reserves in 1995 and served as an Individual Mobilization Augmentee (IMA) until she retired in June 2015. In her last assignment she served as adjunct faculty and the IMA to the Air Force Chief Nurse at the Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland—the Nation’s only federal/military health science university. Her military experience has the been the impetus behind her research and scholarly work which includes women veterans and military sexual trauma, the effects of parental military service on military connected children, and transitioning needs of medics and corpsmen into the professional role of nursing. She was instrumental in the development of a first of its kind College of Nursing online “Introduction to Military and Veteran Health” course. Dr. Rossiter completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice in May 2015. During her Doctoral program at USF she was selected as a Bob Woodward Jonas Veteran Healthcare Scholar and an American Academy of Nursing Jonas Policy Scholar with the Military and Veteran Health Expert Panel.